The Cosmic Code by Pagels, Heinz R. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Page Acknowledgments Dedication Table of Contents foreword PART I - The Road To Quantum reality

1. The Last Classical Physicist 2. Inventing General Relativity 3. The First Quantum Physicists 4. Heisenberg on Helgoland 5. Uncertainty and Complementarity 6. Randomness 7. The Invisible Hand 8. Statistical Mechanics 9. Making Waves 10. Schrödinger’s Cat 11. A Quantum Mechanical Fairy Tale 12. Bell’s Inequality 13. The Reality Marketplace

PART II - The voyage into matter

1. The Matter Microscopes 2. Beginning the Voyage: Molecules, Atoms, and Nuclei

MOLECULES ATOMS NUCLEI

3. The Riddle of the Hadrons 4. Quarks 5. Leptons

THE ELECTRON THE MUON THE NEUTRINOS THE TAU

6. Gluons

1. THE GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTION 2. ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS 3. THE WEAK INTERACTION 4. THE STRONG INTERACTION

7. Fields, Particles, and Reality 8. Being and Nothingness 9. Identity and Difference 10. The Gauge Field Theory Revolution 11. Proton Decay 12. The Quantum and the Cosmos

PART III - The cosmic code

1. Laying Down the Law

1. THEIR INVARIANT NATURE 2. UNIVERSALITY AND SIMPLICITY OF PHYSICAL LAWS 3. COMPLETENESS 4. RELATION TO OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENT 5. RELATION TO MATHEMATICS

2. The Cosmic Code

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